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And yet it did. Soon, his phone began to ring: When would he set up his crosses?
但是它發生了，他的手機開始響了：他什么時候做他的十字架？
Zanis worked through the night, building five monuments to the deceased.
詹尼斯工作了一晚上，為五個死者做了墓碑。
Each was four feet tall, weighed about 30 pounds, and featured the victim's name and photo and a big red heart.
每一個都有四英尺高，大約30磅重，上面有受害者的名字和照片，還有一個大大的紅心。
"My simple message is just that heart on the cross," he told CNN.
他告訴CNN，我想傳達的簡單信息就是十字架上的那顆心。
"Love your brother, love your neighbor. Don't judge them. Life isn't that complicated. Hate and revenge is."
“愛你的兄弟，愛你的鄰居。不要評判他們。生活沒那么復雜。恨和復仇才可怕。”
Zanis loaded the crosses carefully into the back of his white pickup and drove to the plant.
扎尼斯小心地把十字架裝進他那輛白色敞篷小貨車的后面，然后開車去了工廠。
He already knew where he'd place them: on the sidewalk out front, next to a chain-link fence.
他已經知道他要把它們放在哪里：在外面的緊挨著一個鐵鏈柵欄的人行道上。
As he always does, he arrived quietly and left without a word. His work was done. Zanis understands more than most how the families feel.
像往常一樣，他安靜地到達，又安靜地離去。他做好了自己的工作。詹尼斯比大多數人更了解這些家庭的感受。
He began building crosses to honor his father-in-law, who was murdered in 1996.
他開始做十字架來紀念他的岳父，他于1996年被謀殺。
Tragedy struck him again in 2018, when he buried his 37-year-old daughter, who died of a drug overdose.
2018年，悲劇再次打擊了他，那年他埋葬了他37歲的女兒，她死于藥物過量。
A few weeks after her death, he was in Parkland, Florida, with the 17 crosses and stars he'd made for the victims at Marjory Stone-man Douglas High School.
女兒去世幾周后，他帶著自己為馬喬里·斯通曼·道格拉斯高中的受害者做的17個十字架和大衛之星，去了弗羅里達的巴克蘭。
"When I went to Parkland, I was a mess," he told the Tribune. "
“去巴克蘭的時候，我一團糟。”他告訴《論壇報》。
But I can't allow myself to get consumed in my own grief.
但是我不能讓自己沉浸在悲傷之中。
I'm offering these families hope. It helps me, and it helps them.
我是在給這些家庭送去希望。這能幫助我，也能幫助他們。
I know that for a fact because when I leave there, they are smiling. Despite having seen and experienced so much grief, Zanis insists he has no agenda.
我知道這是真的，因為我離開的時候，他們在笑。盡管經歷了如此多的悲痛，詹尼斯堅持說他沒有議題。
He isn't advocating for one thing or another. "I'm not a gun issue guy. I'm not a church guy," he told the New York Times.
他沒有什么支持的東西。“我不關心槍支問題。我也不去教堂。”他告訴《紐約時報》。
"There's no interest here other than helping people remember."
“我只關心一件事，那就是幫助人們銘記。”
